Royal Thai Army ordered Skyguard 3 to replace its old generation of the short-range air defense system at the Defense & Security 2015

Rheinmetall Defence did not give more information on how many systems the RTA procured or when it will be delivered.

Skyguard 3 is anti-aircraft fire control radar with a Skyguard system can select either a gun instead of a Oerlikon Twin Gun GDF007 or Oerlikon Revolver Gun Mk2 and can also choose a V SHORAD missile launcher.

Source TAF

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Skyguard 3 Air Defense Systems

Oerlikon Twin Gun GDF007

Oerlikon Revolver Gun Mk2

The Skyguard air defense system can also used the Raytheon AIM-7E/AIM-7F/AIM-7M Sparrow missile. The four-round launcher is mounted on the carriage of the Oerlikon Contraves twin 35-mm GDF towed anti-aircraft gun system and the missiles are fired through the covers. Two rounds are mounted each side of the operator’s position with the illuminator antenna mounted forward and below his position.

Another missile used with the Skyguard air defense system is the Aspide. This is similar to the Skyguard/Sparrow but uses the four-round Alenia Marconi Systems Aspide launcher used in the Spada air defence system in service with Italy and Thailand. Cyprus has also bought the Skyguard/Aspide system with 12 systems in service.

Spada air defence system missile of the Thai army

General data:
Type: Radar	Altitude Max: 13716 m
Range Max: 25.9 km	Altitude Min: 0 m
Range Min: 0.2 km	Generation: Late 1970s

Properties: Moving Target Indicator (MTI), Pulse Doppler Radar (Full LDSD Capability), Continuous Wave Illumination

Sensors / EW:
Spada Aspide Illuminator – Radar Role: Radar Illuminator, Short-Range Max Range: 25.9 km

Source cmano-db.com

Generic Gun Director

General data:
Type: Visual	Altitude Max: 0 m
Range Max: 74.1 km	Altitude Min: 0 m
Range Min: 0 km	Generation: Visual, 1st Generation TV Camera (1960s/1970s, TISEO)

Properties: Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) [Side Info], Classification [Class Info] / Brilliant Weapon [Automatic Target Aquisition], Continous Tracking Capability [Visual]

Sensors / EW:
Generic Gun Director [TV Camera] – (1st Gen, Anti-Air & Surface) Visual Role: Visual, Weapon Director TV Camera Max Range: 74.1 km

Source cmano-db.com

ASPIDE 2000

Propulsion
• High thrust single stage solid rocket motor
Guidance
• Semi-active radar homing
Warhead & fuze
• High lethality fragmentation warhead
• Proximity fuze, independent from homing seeker, also effective at very low altitude
ECCM capability
• Compliant with predicted ECM threat

Name
• ASPIDE 2000
Missile characteristics
• Length: 3.7 m
• Diameter: 234 mm
• Speed: High supersonic • Intercept range: in excess of 25 km

Source mbda-systems.com

A shelter based version of ADATS missile is also used with the Skyguard fire control system. which is in service with the Thai army. The ADATS missile can engage all types of low-level threats, including attack helicopters exposed at stand-off ranges at extremely low altitudes. The system has a 10km range against air or ground targets.

Shelter based version of ADATS missile of the Thai army

ADATS is a low-level short range air defence (SHORAD) system, capable of engaging both air and surface targets. It was manufactured by Oerlikon Contraves based in Zurich, Switzerland, now part of Rheinmetall Defence, and Oerlikon Aerospace in Quebec, which is now Rheinmetall Canada.

ADATS is in service as part of the Canadian Forces Low-Level Air Defence System (CF LLADS). The first system was delivered in 1988. 36 systems were delivered, ending in 1994. The Royal Thai Air Force has one shelter-based system, linked to a Skyguard fire control system.

The ADATS Missile System can be mounted on a variety of mobile platforms, such as the M113 and M3 Bradley.

For the Canadian CFLLADS, it is mounted on the M113 armoured vehicle. It is also available in a shelter-based version for fixed and in a palletised version, which can be integrated with the Oerlikon Contraves Skyshield Air Defence System.

Source resecret.wordpress.com

ADATS Missile

Shelter based version of ADATS missile of the Thai army

Length: 2.05 m
Diameter: 152 mm
Launch weight: approx. 51 kg
Speed: Mach 3+
Range: 10 km
Ceiling: 7,000 m
Warhead: 12.5 kg high explosive (HE) fragmentation/shaped charge, impact and proximity fuze
Penetration: 900 mm rolled homogeneous armour (RHA)
Guidance: Digitally coded laser beam-riding